Bills of Mortality.- London's Dreadful Visitation: Or, a Collection of all the Bills of Mortality for this Present Year:, first edition, by E.Cotes, 1665.

Bills of Mortality.- London's Dreadful Visitation: Or, a Collection of all the Bills of Mortality for this Present Year: Beginning the 20th. Of December 1664. And ending the 19th of December following..., first edition, issue with "20th. December" rather than "27th December" in title, title with woodcut coats-of-arms & border with memento mori motifs and illegible contemporary ink signature, folding letterpress table at end, with an additional folding table of "...all the Christnings and...Burials from the 19 of December, 1665. To the 18 of December, 1666", heavily soiled and stained, title frayed at edges and laid down, signatures B-I with central stain sometimes causing tears and slight loss (some leaves reinforced with old paper strip but not obscuring text), final three leaves defective at lower outer corner (repaired with some loss of text), both tables mounted on linen, additional table defective with loss to heading and some figures in extreme right column, modern calf, a little scuffed, [Wellcome III 540; Wing G1598a], 4to, by E.Cotes, 1665.

⁂ Scarce weekly list of the births and deaths (and their causes) in all the London parishes during 1665: 97,306 deaths were recorded in total, of which 68,596 were as a result of the plague. Other causes of death include "frighted 23", "headmouldshot & mouldfallen 4", "lethargy 14", "plannet 6", "rising of the lights 397" and "surfet 1251".

One of two issues, one beginning 20th December, the other 27th December. This edition with the earlier date suggests it has precedence. ESTC lists only 2 copies of the additional folding table of christenings and burials in 1666 (Queen's College, Oxford and Wellcome Institute, none in America).